Under $1000 I'd choose performance over walnut and live with plastic.
This is a lot of shotgun.
https://www.beretta.com/en-us/beretta-a300-ultima-black-synthetic/ I ALMOST pulled the trigger on this a few weeks ago. LGS quoted me $810 OTD if I paid cash. But I wanted something with a 24" barrel, no more than 26" in a 20 ga. I ended up leaving a deposit and they ordered me a Benelli M2 in 20 ga and a 24" barrel. Price was $1200 OTD for cash. Should be in within a couple of weeks.
To ME it was worth $400 to get inertia operated and a shorter barrel. Might not be worth it to everyone.
I already have longer barreled guns for wing and clays shooting. I wanted a light weight turkey gun that could double as a woods bumming gun for shots of opportunity on squirrel, rabbit, or quail.
